# Admit It! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398 "2003-06-12T18:08:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/101 "2003-06-13T16:13:10Z")
The Bruins/Patriots confusion reminds me of one of my own stupidities. For years I thought the Washington Redskins were based in Washington state. What city? Who knows. But in the state of Washington. Made sense to me; ‘redskins’ denotes Indians, Indians are out west, Washington is out west … I still have to remind myself if the team is somehow brought to my attention that they’re playing in DC. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/102 "2003-06-13T16:15:40Z")
“Thats gotta hurt, and that goes for both of you.” Yeah, but when you’re 11 years old you work through the pain. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/103 "2003-06-13T16:16:31Z")
HAHA, \*\*Bandanaman, \*\* too hilarious. I Thought I was the only WKRP fan in existence. Okay, I admit it. When I was young, my father told me he scheduled the moon landing on TV just for my birthday. I believed him. ---
**Author:** ![Lizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@Lizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lizard)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/104 "2003-06-13T16:29:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maureen \* > \*\*Okay, I admit it. When I was young, my father told me he scheduled the moon landing on TV just for my birthday. > > I believed him. \*\* Hell, that sounds like something the Dad from “Calvin and Hobbes” would say. ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/105 "2003-06-13T16:41:41Z")
Okay, I’ll admit it: I was 18 before I realized that in _The Wizard of Oz_ the characters all had the thing they wanted the most all along–the Scarecrow came up with all the ideas (thus, he had a brain), the Tinman was soft-hearted, and the Cowardly Lion really did defend them all, in a pinch, and with his eyes closed. This had gone over my head the 7 or 8 times I saw it as a kid. And yes, I figured it out for myself, it wasn’t the _America_ song that did it. ---
**Author:** ![Avalonian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@Avalonian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avalonian)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/106 "2003-06-13T18:15:53Z")
I, also, used to mispronounce “misled” pretty egregiously, until I was in college. For the longest time, I thought it was “mizzled.” I specifically remember reading it in _The Stand_, and the funny thing is, I still knew what it meant just fine. In the U2 song “Where the Streets Have No Name,” I always heard one lyric as “when the toaster disappeared…” When I was using the song for a retrospective video reel, I remarked to a friend on how strange the lyric was. I got a looong stare as a response, and she finally (having determined I wasn’t kidding) said, “Dude. It’s _dust cloud_. ‘When the dust cloud disappears…’” I still haven’t lived that down. My wife and I one had sex while watching (well, sort of watching) a Japanese _hentai_ anime. We both liked it quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Winnie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e480ec/32.png) [@Winnie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winnie)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/107 "2003-06-13T19:42:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bibliovore \* > \*\*For years and years, I actually thought that there was a pole planted in the ice at the North Pole. For some weird reason, I pictured it as a red-and-white-striped barber-shop pole with a big brass ball on the top. I finally figured it out at around age 12, when I asked my mother. As soon as the words came out of my mouth, the lightbulb over my head went “ping!” and I felt like an idiot… > > I blame Bugs Bunny. \*\* I had the exact same image in my head and thought all there was was that pole. I pictured the same one at the South Pole only it was upside down. Until recently I was another one who didn’t realize women peed/put tampons in two different holes. I’ve been removing them before going to the bathroom for as long as I can remember. I still have to sing the ABC song, “30 days have September”, and didn’t know how to use the washing machine until I was in college. ---
**Author:** ![Davebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Davebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Davebear)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/108 "2003-06-13T20:01:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Maureen \* > \*\*HAHA, \*\*Bandanaman, \*\* too hilarious. I Thought I was the only WKRP fan in existence. \*\* Hmmm. Well, I’ve been wondering what I could admit to, so I guess I could to _still_ not being sure whether **Bandanaman** was serious or I’ve been whooshed. While I’m at it, I should also admit that Les Nessman’s broadcast from the supermarket parking lot was the first thing that popped into my head, when I saw his post. And, I guarantee there are people out there who are convinced turkeys can’t fly, just because of that episode. Oh, and the North “barber” Pole thing, as well, when I was a kid. As I recall, I was rather indignant about there not really being such a thing, when I found out. _“Well, there **should** be, don’t you think?”_ ---
**Author:** ![blanx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f04885/32.png) [@blanx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blanx)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/109 "2003-06-13T20:21:49Z")
Until my second year of college, I was convinced that my high school classmates who wanted to become engineers were planning to get a striped cap and drive trains. (and I was one of the smart kids at school). ---
**Author:** ![ace22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@ace22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ace22)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/110 "2003-06-13T20:37:51Z")
I often, upon being told by an attendant to “enjoy the movie” or “enjoy the play” or “enjoy your meal” catch myself saying, just as I realize how dumb it is, “You too.” ---
**Author:** ![vertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/3ec8ea/32.png) [@vertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vertigo)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/111 "2003-06-13T20:44:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Davebear \* > **And, I guarantee there are people out there who are convinced turkeys can’t fly, just because of that episode.** I was under the impression that “domestic” turkeys can’t fly. You know the big white ones you see on farms. The colorful wild ones indeed fly quite well, although I’ve never seen them attain much hight (higher than a house). ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/112 "2003-06-13T20:52:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tomcat \* > \*\*I can’t think of any personal ones, although I’m sure there are quite a few, but there is one that always makes me shake my head in shame at the quality of education in the States… > > Here in Prague we have a river named the Vltava. It runs from south to north. Yes, amazingly enough folks, it flows UP a map! Can’t believe it? Join the line behind about 10 other Americans I’ve had to whip out a compass on…Never had that question raised from any other nationality. > > Oh, I remember a personal one now! Up until I was a teenager I thought that if the earth stopped rotating we would all fly off into space. Thank God Henson & Peary were safe from my addled brain. > > -Tcat \*\* There seems to be an… “urban legend”, for want of a better term… here in the States that rivers flow south, and that rivers that flow north are very, very rare. A lot of people believe this, cause it gets passed down through our grandparents - and our grandparents wouldn’t lie, would they? I also get the right/left mixed up quite often, but if I have to know I just remember that “I write with my right hand.” Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/113 "2003-06-13T20:57:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*And a spectacularly funny Pit thread by ? regarding how he confused \*\*Jerry Lee Lewis \*\* and \*\* Jerry Lewis \*\* for years. > > “Goodness Gracioius Great Balls of…Heyyyy Laaaadie!” > > Who was dat, anyways? > > God that was funny. \*\* The incomparable [My Rage burns with the fire of a million suns](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=62082&perpage=30&pagenumber=1) by lno (That’s LNO for those of you (like myself) who thought it was INO). ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/114 "2003-06-13T21:00:26Z")
For the longest time I thought that the song “Sometimes When We Touch” contained the line “the artist sees too much” instead of “the honesty’s too much”. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/115 "2003-06-13T21:17:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > \*\*For the longest time I thought that the song “Sometimes When We Touch” contained the line “the artist sees too much” instead of “the honesty’s too much”. \*\* Well, now, if this is going to turn into a “Misheard Lyrics” thread, I’ve got OODLES of contributions! Journey, anyone? \*Someday love will find you! **Great balls chase and find you**! One night will remind you– How we touched and went our sep’rate ways . . . \* ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/116 "2003-06-13T21:21:30Z")
Apparently my contribution to this thread has already been named and linked – yes, I lived twenty-four years before I knew the difference between Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis. I don’t know whether to be flattered or embarrassed that I seem to be best known for that. ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/117 "2003-06-13T21:38:39Z")
When I was little, I thought my uncle had a wonderful and mysterious first name (“Owl”, as in “Uncle Owl”) but a puzzling second name (my grandmother sometimes called him “Bunion.”) It was only in high school that I realized his first two names were “Al” and “Bunyan.” I felt pretty silly, 'cuz I’d actually been calling him “Uncle Owl” for years. Whenever I’m turning a screw, I have to think “Clockwise to tighten, counterclockwise to loosen,” accompanied by using an air screwdriver just to get the point into my head. ---
**Author:** ![auntie\_em](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@auntie\_em](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/auntie_em)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/118 "2003-06-13T21:52:17Z")
**Archergal** , I have an Uncle “Bubble”. Oops . . . turns out that’s been **Bubba** all of these years. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/119 "2003-06-13T21:56:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cankerist \* > \*\*Strangely enough, I don’t have the same problem with port and starboard, which I learnt much later in life as a sailor. \*\* Which reminds me - which one’s port, and which one’s starboard again? I can never remember. Even if you tell me, I’ll forget again almost instantly. Oh, and although I can tie a necktie reliably, if I tried to explain it, or even think about it, as I’m doing it, I’d probably end up hanging myself or something. I’ve honestly had days where I had to put the tie down for a while, stop thinking about it, then come back and get it tied on before my brain started trying to remember how it went again. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/120 "2003-06-13T21:59:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by auntie em \* > \*\*Well, now, if this is going to turn into a “Misheard Lyrics” thread, I’ve got OODLES of contributions! > > Journey, anyone? > > \*Someday love will find you! > **Great balls chase and find you**! > One night will remind you– > How we touched and went our sep’rate ways . . . \* \*\* Dammit, **auntie**! Not ONLY do I now have this song stuck in my head, thankyewvereemuch, but I can’t remember what the lyric is supposed to be. Which makes me sing the song… which keeps it stuck in my head… AAARRRRrrrrrrgggggggghhhhh! ::runs screaming from the thread:: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398.md?page=7)